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Memories Of You
LIGHTNING BUG/MOO

part of me wanted to fool people into believing that one of the uploads from like 15 years ago for pmd2 had the best quality instead when people were saying to switch them, just so i had an excuse to use the fanon title again. but really who needs excuses anyway

it's funny how we are the lights feels like the go shiina song here

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/34b8293c.png

oh hey this is out now (well, in early access but either way)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEq7vO7x0Po

had this somewhat on my radar, it really impressed me when i saw footage for the first time (admittedly more than a little because of how much it reminded me of rabi-ribi/tevi). still looks really good, and i'm tempted to pick it up in the coming weeks or so (considering Until Then isn't coming out next week any more, probably then)

Flygon/Squirtle
Fennekin/Froslass
Kricketune/Lopunny
Pichu/Marshtomp

the second and third matches were very tough... (froslass>lombre>sudowoodo>fennekin and kricketune>omastar>sprigatito=lopunny. small gaps on both though, don't dislike any of them)

last match was incredibly easy

Wordle 1,062 5/6*






charm
plain
****e
****k
*****

Wordle 1,061 5/6*






craze
locus
f
w

unfort

tazzyboyishere posted...

Naganuma disrespect is disgusting

agree

though if there hadn't already been comments i would've absolutely seen your comment as mizuno disrespect

Somnia Memorias
Tower of Memories

sometimes, the bit just isn't worth it. this corner is too good...
these weren't the hardest decisions thus far but that makes it all the more unfortunate, since i know i'd have very likely voted tunic and am in a LOT of other places on the bracket...
also am passing on the tiebreaker since it was pretty close for me the first time around

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e13403dc.png

also i'm just going to mention that Tower of Memories actually loops at 2:23

me rn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33EA-4odv68

Layton

i don't even play the games i have no idea how that came to mind first lol

Xtlm posted...

Xanadu Next

being probably the best game on the system still doesn't make this true (a cursory look finally shows it had 3d racing games, several fpses, and even a faithful super monkey ball port, all of which seemingly also ran far better than it lol)

Uglyface2 posted...

Shoot, I keep forgetting that you get the next puzzle early. Serves me right for not paying attention.

that's the reason i've been avoiding including the answer guess when i've been first lately lol.

(generally if i think it'll be a gimme with the other guesses i'll also avoid posting them too but i figured i had to here just to give any context to my commentary)

junglegirl posted...

this is way older than I expected. also this is so pretty what

true. for a first (official) game soundtrack release back in the late 90s, it clearly demonstrated that he was already a true master of his craft

it still should've been gran turismo 2 though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf_9tvhnu20

AcireExists posted...

Y'know, I didn't expect this to be, well, FM (at least I think it's FM? sounded Genesis-esque so I assume it is) lol. Nice song tho, I like.

this version of the game is on the Sharp X68000 btw, it uses the ZMUSIC format (which is basically just an advanced (for the time) container for fm, pcm and midi audio. the game happened to have both fm and midi soundtracks this way, and mizuno-san definitely pushed both to its limits

if you're wondering, here's what the midi version is like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GsGNL6s8_c
@AcireExists

-hotdogturtle-- posted...

Smh it's like the Poll of the Day front page writers designed this poll.

how do we know deo isn't secretly a potd writer

Gran Turismo
Gran Turismo 2
Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec
Gran Turismo 4

Knowledge of the World (Twin Moon) (FM Ver.)
Burning, Churning Power Plant
Spring Wind Skylark

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/5c618464.png
in hindsight we really just needed to do burger king as a genre

um, hello? it's 2024, the current year. really? *does something people in 2024 think people did in 1984*, literally 1984.

too real for this tbh

makes sense considering it wasn't really part of the poll series and there weren't like, rules for it

like i just talked about like 10 games on it and didn't pick one specifically

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8hNT5C8rqc if i were to pick now it'd probably just be this (Metal Slader Glory)
sure it was pretty deep into its lifespan, but it's still almost unbelievable an adventure game with animation and sound (well, it's mostly sfx that are impressive) like this was on the system (and without even needing to be a famicom disk system title)

Wordle 1,060 4/6*





space
blast
grass

was very clutch i decided to check for a second s just in case, i very nearly didn't and i probably wouldn't have gotten it at all without that

today on new videogames where i cannot fathom how anyone actually decided to make them lol

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1901130/A_Difficult_Game_About_ROLLING__ReUpRise/ monkey ball meets only up (and technically also a difficult game about climbing, so you can tie it to getting over it as well)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2603860/Underground_Defense_Force_Sword_and_Sorcery_and_Swarm_of_Insects/ earth defense force but it's an rpgmaker demake spinoff fangame

first thought for poll was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GbBD_7AsGA btw

tough call, i'm neutral on the jellicent and golurk lines but like the rest, and i like swadloon, joltik, the crustle and volcarona lines, but am neutral on the rest and the scolipede line and genesect are probably at the bottom of either group for me.

Wordle 1,059 3/6*




clues
curry
cumin
back to winning ways thanks to another particularly lucky first guess (i guess i'm just getting good with the hard (blind) reads of what kind of letters will get prioritised each time lately) which i wasn't quite able to capitalise on (cumin honestly made sense but but it took me a solid 2 mins to even think of any words that had the u in a different spot, and cumin just wasn't the word i thought of. of course, given curry, it was inevitable it'd come to mind straight after lol)

i've never owned an n-gage or personally played any of the games but i do recall that a popular view on what the most advanced n-gage game was is some fps i cannot recall currently

sequence

Rage
Wild Woods
Round

i would've voted round but since we're only just starting i have to give it a 1 (jk)
this was funnier before i flipped anyway

Kyogre/Torchic
Paras/Nincada
Falinks/Weavile
Houndstone/Dhelmise

i'm probably the biggest fan of paras and nincada here so i half expect to be the only vote for them (i'm not checking the current results lol)

Final Fantasy VI (Super Nintendo)
Daytona USA (Arcade)

if i make naruto naruto-run a thousand times faster on the overworld in ultimate ninja 5 i think that'll just crash the game

WarioWare

Aria Math
b10
T11

man that first 8-pack is long though. how is live and learn, a 4 and a half minute song, somehow the shortest one on there...

also those latter two matches are brutal, i'm a bit disheartened not voting for sakura or pokemon here... (they were really tough calls too)

bonus genre posting
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/8a91370e.png

Policenauts (PC)
Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 (Game Boy)

up

considering i'm not sure ripping methods for pmd2 were even like, fully sussed out by the time the shinx uploads happened, i agree it's pretty fair to replace all of them with newer ones just for that reason alone

granted, i'm not really confident that goldenrod radio is necessarily the best option out there, but the shinx ones are almost certainly not as optimal as they could be nowadays

Wordle 1,058 5/6*






exist
grate
tower
other

would love to see revisits on most of these provided they're new evos (or megas)

and a parasect new form could save it from its crippling flaws so that would be nice too. not sure i'd be happy about any other ones getting one though. maybe ditto? an alt form "dragonite" to just be more consistent with dratini/dragonair's designs would be an ideal scenario to me and it'll never in a million years happen

in case it somehow helps

bump

Cetitan/Poltchageist
Toedscool/Floette
Xatu/Donphan
Chatot/Magnemite

hurts not voting regice

okay what the heck one of the other one piece games on wsc was a mystery dungeon clone with beat-em-up combat??? i want that now... (don't say roguelite don't say roguelite don't sa-)

the board games look cool too... i wonder why i never considered getting them before now

what the heck there's even a puyo puyo clone with mahjong tiles that's so cool

anyway uhhhhhhhh

on second thought i actually think i WILL vote for X: Card of Fate lol (it's better than it looks in the video i provided before)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0Y2fmbRp1E&t=883s

anyway i guess i'll post color games i've played (and more often than not also own) and like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhhdxDC9o9Y
It's weird to me that this game has become considerably more obscure over the past decade or so when it used to be arguably bigger than judgement silversword. anyway this game was competitive even with gba titles of the time, with very smooth gameplay. It doesn't really feel like a super compelling pick, but it's solid!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rs2jCW9nKE
15 years ago or so especially i was way into one piece, and that was also when i got interested in the wonderswan, so it was almost a given i'd pick this up, especially since i already had some familiarity with the one piece grand battle series (which this is a spinoff to). I'm biased, but I felt like this had to be one of the best fighting games on the system, it was quite satisfying to control

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwJa02b7Guk
at the time, i felt it was kind of insane that something like this was on there. of course, i wasn't terribly aware of just how many bullet hells were actually on comparable hardware at the time, so it's somewhat less so now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjyId3GBsyE
i just like x ok. also the console itself didn't do a very good job of conveying this that well, but this soundtrack is great lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9lMAg_stvI
this was not a very advanced wsc game, i'll be honest. i liked it though, wish this ever came back like front mission has lately (it's effectively a spinoff, albeit with a unique setting and gameplay)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_8eChLdfHs
yeah the answer absolutely isn't this but obviously i like the game though, as the effective origin of the namco x capcom/project x zone series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz87QtLj7D0
am i biased? absolutely. but it WAS an exceptionally well made rpg for the handheld. in some regards, there are elements in this version i don't think were ever bested in ANY of the releases since

needless to say, i don't think these ones specifically would actually get my vote either, so i guess i'll pick something i haven't played...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/030064c7.png
wtf

apparently i can't share youtube links for the games i was going to bring up so that's cool. (edit, nvm lol)

anyway i'm going to try jogging my memory on what ones i brought up during the snes topic or wherever they were since i edited them into a message at the time and therefore (site i realised was actually the cause of the message not getting accepted) doesn't have it. pretty sure i was only looking at regular wonderswan games at the time though so i probably won't actually vote for them

https://youtu.be/6bTcYlCk410 it is still insane that they managed to put a perfect (besides being monochrome) port of clock tower on it

https://youtu.be/K_FP4W9_Wm8
https://youtu.be/QGxguaoigkY
there's always that argument of smoke and mirrors when it comes to games like this, and it's obviously no secret that the reason these look this detailed is because they converted photos frame by frame for this, but making even something like that possible here is a real technical feat

https://youtu.be/7B4Ds-Z0SuE
https://youtu.be/m15jq1e23lg
these may not look very impressive, but rhythm games with precise timing really don't feel like they SHOULD be possible on a handheld like this, so the fact that they pulled it off absolutely is to me

finally

Border

FightFirstDeusExMachina_Dearest
Awakening ~ Nrburgring Suite
New Bodhum ~ New Bodhum -Aggressive Mix-

i get it's been a few years but still kinda hecked up basically the direct successor to torna battle, noted vgmc13 semifinalist, is facing basically a successor to revenger, noted vgmc13 finalist, on the first match of the contest... (at least it's a fitting title gimmick match so i can't place blame)

Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (Arcade)
Killer Instinct (Arcade)

Wordle 1,057 3/6*




moxie
drink

have to say i've been liking the general streak i've been on lately. haven't had to go to 6 in the last 30+ games and also now have more games in 3 than 4 in that time, which is... unexpected for me at least. doubt it'll last